Re: Incorporation of EC And teacher case

2003-06-13 Thread Rick Duncan
--- AJCONGRESS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IF SO MANY PEOPLE WANT THIS CLUB, WHT IS THERE NOT SOMEONE ELSE TO STAFF IT? I'm sure there is someone else. But that does not justify restricting the First Amendment rights of the teacher to participate (not to mention the children's the First

Re: Teacher Fights for Right to Teach Religion After School

2003-06-13 Thread Bradley P Jacob
Dear Charles, I don't dispute anything that you say -- but it really is nearly impossible to get there from the language and intent of the statute, which was to protect religious students' right to meet on equal terms with other groupsrather than to impose substantive limits on school

Re: Who Speaks For Children? Government? Or Parents?

2003-06-13 Thread Rick Duncan
--- AJCONGRESS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is not children who truly want to go to the club.It is children who do not,or would not,but for the perceived advantage of being with Mrs. Smith, who is trading on one role (public scholl teacher ) to enhave another:(Christian club

Re: Who Speaks For Children? Government? Or Parents?

2003-06-13 Thread Lupu, Ira (Chip)
In reading the last round of posts on this topic (and we are starting to just repeat arguments, which probably means it's time to quit, without fighting for the last word), I'm beginning to think that the problem bothering those who support the school system in this conflict is whether the teacher

Reasonable Observer: WWSD

2003-06-13 Thread Rick Duncan
My son, who is a law student at another school, told me that one of his professor's has a fun way of describing the reasonable observer test under the EC. He says just ask WWSD. What Would Sandra Do! Cute! --Rick = Rick Duncan Welpton Professor of Law University of Nebraska College of Law